Garment



GARMENT Filed June 29, 1925 Fig 3 Fig.1

Zack F F'armi" Patented Mar. 12, 1929.

UNITED 1 STATES PATENT!OFFICE;

JOHN GEORGE SCHERF AND zAcKroR'r 'FAnMEaoraNnALUsIA, ALABAMAr- GARMENApplication filed .J'une 29, 1925. Serial No; 40,203.-

The present invention relates to a garment for bothadults and children.and has particularly to do with a slit opening therein and the manner inwhich such opening is produced. w h

In application, the invention may include waist suits,rompers, overalls,coveralls, unionalls, underwear and pajamas for children, and for mensand youths wear, union suits, over a].ls, pajamas and similar garments;The material of which these garments may be.

made is immaterialfor the structure lends it self to adaptation to usewith any suitable material.

Among the objects of the invention are the following The provision of animproved garment having a slit opening; A new and novel way forproviding a slit opening in a garment of the types described;

An unique way of reinforcing the material of a garment adjacent anopening therein;

Improved means for providing a slit opening in a garment and for givinggreat strength to the material adjacent such opening,conjointlyproviding a neat finish; and

The employment of a facing or stripupon a garment having a side -orother opening whereby comfort for the wearer is attained whilestrengthening the material adjacent such opening.

These and such other objects as may hereinafter appear are obtained bythe novel combination, construction and arrangement of the elementsconstituting the invention, a single enibodiment'of which is disclosedin the accompanying drawing, and in which Figures 1, 2, and 3 show thepatterns required to produce a garment such as is illustrated inthesucceeding figures; Figure 1 being the seat or back'of leg of a garmentwith side seams Figure 2 being the front with the body and leg cut inone piece; and Figure 3 the back.

Figure 4 shows a garmentembodying the invention; and I Figures 5, 6, 7and 8 disclose three stages in the production of a side opening in agarment like that in Figure 4.

Like reference characters are used to designate similar parts in thedrawing and in the description which follows.

It must be distinctly understood at the outstart that the garmentillustrated in Figure 4 is but one of the many types of garments inwhich the invention may be employed to adrover. and the facings' strip6. A row of stitches Sis arrangedacross ment and to thereby addvariously changed without, departing from' the spiritof' the invention.

An undergarment is tive purposes only. f Several portions of materialcut in accord with the patterns illustrated inFigures 1, 2 and 3 arejoined one to another to produce a garment such as is shown in Figured,which is a back View ofsuch a garment. The-reinforcing sho'wnin the seatis frequently supplied and is cut from a separatepattern not here shown.And as it willlater be quite manifest, the construction employed uponthe side openinginay be used with equalfacility upon a front or backopening garment.

15y reference to Figure 1, it will be seen that the material of the seatS adjacent the side seam slit as indicated by the numeral- 53. Asshownin Figure 5 the'narrow strip ofinaterial 6 is turned down and to theedge formed by said slit'5, one or more strips'of material 7 which maybe called facings and i which may be of various widths and lengthsv ares itched therein.

,acter of facings 7 are matters for the designer The numbers and charofthe garment to determine as is also the length of slit 5. i I

When the end of the slit 5 is reached during selected for; illustra-ithe stitching of the facings 7 to the seat S the operator picks up theturned down strip 6 and continues his stitches through the strips 7thereinto. The stitching, which may be in several rows is extended tothe end of strip 6. The order of these operations could be 7 sewed firstonto the facing-s 7 at the point where said strips 7 cease to befastened to the seat S of the garment and become attached to strip 6.

The strip 6 carrying the facing 7isadapted to be secured to the frontportion of the garto such front at the side seam 9 a narrow portionofmaterial.

13y cutting the material asindicated at 5, attaching thereto acontinuous facing or facings 7 ,and placing the transverse stitching atthe point 9 of jointure between said strip 6 and the garment proper, areinforcement around the opening is obtained. of saidopening are equallywell reinforced by a continuous strip or its equivalent and the garmentis strongest at this section. A

very neat finish is provided and there is great Both sides.

garment adjacent the jointure of strip 6 and the leg portion secures anatural separation between the several sections of the garment. This isnot such a separation as to cause the opening to spread for on thecontrary it re- ,mains closed, but it is sufficient todistinguishlthevparts and show the termination of theopening. V

i The garment as to its other parts may be conventionally made. Asto theposition of a side opening made in accord with the inven tion, it maybefurther forward or more to ward the back than shown. This is. anotherdetail whichis determined by the cutter or the designer of the garmentRipping of the garment at the opening is practically impossible becauseof the superior manner in which it is reinforced by a continuous member.

We claim: The method of manufacturing a garment having a drop seat withthe usual and incidental openings at the sidethereof which consists incutting the portion of the garlower back, slittingthe' lower backlongi-' tudinally at the top and near the sides thereof, sewing a singlestrip of material along the out edges of said slit and sewing the upperand lower rear portions to the front portion with the upper and lowerrear portions partially overlapping, the small portion of materialresulting fro'm the slit, together with one part of said sewed in stripbeing included in the seam with the front portion of the garment,consisting of a front, upper back and ment and the lower edge of theupper rear portion.

JOHN GEORGE scjnnnr. ZACK roar FARMER.

